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Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers MIT Press to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of a new book about developments in synthetic biology.

Synthetic Aesthetics explains the emerging discipline of synthetic biology, which looks at adapting natural organisms and processes to create new products, materials and even lifeforms.

The first few chapters introduce the science, followed by examples of collaborative projects between artists, designers and biologists – a mix of speculative ideas and realised creations.

These include a proposal by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg to develop bacteria to excrete brightly coloured pigments that colour your poo when they detect disease inside your body, and samples of human cheese created by Christina Agapakis and Sissel Tolaas.

Synthetic Aesthetics is written by experts in the field: Ginsberg, Jane Calvert, Pablo Schyfter, Alistair Elfick and Drew Endy.

Published by MIT Press, the book will launch on 25 April to coincide with an evening programme of talks, installations and workshops at London’s V&A museum, from 6:30-10pm – more details here.

Competition closes 19 May 2014. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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